Issue
The system will not boot to a degraded RAID 1 volume.

Cause
After a failed hard drive member of a RAID 1 volume has been replaced with a new hard drive, some system BIOS' will give the new hard drive higher priority in the boot order. The system will then attempt to boot to the new hard drive instead of the RAID 1 volume.

Solution
Note: The instructions below are specific to motherboards manufactured by Intel with a supported Intel chipset. Always follow the instructions that are provided with your motherboard. The specific instructions on non-Intel manufactured motherboards may differ.

1. Enter the BIOS Setup program by pressing the <F2> key after the Power-On-Self-Test (POST) memory test begins.
2. Select the Boot menu, and then the Boot Device Priority menu.
3. If the RAID volume is not listed in the Boot Device Priority list, press <ESC>, and then select the Hard Disk Drives menu.
4. Select the RAID volume as a boot device using the Up Arrow or Down Arrow keys and press <Enter>.
5. Select the Boot menu and verify that the RAID volume is now listed in the Boot Device Priority list.
6. Press <F10> to save the BIOS settings and exit the BIOS setup program.
7. The system should now boot to the degraded RAID 1 volume.

This applies to:

Intel® Matrix Storage Manager